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This page serves to outline all the important information that IT groups will need to know for the LANDesk 9.6 SP1 Upgrade.
General Info
The upgrade is scheduled for first last week of December 2014May 2015. It may be delayed for 1-2 weeks if major bugs are identified during testing.
What does my IT group need to do before the upgrade?
Preparing for Landesk 9.6 SP2 details what information will be migrated from out existing Landesk Server to the new one. IT groups need to delete old unnecessary distribution packages and queries on the production.
Testing for Landesk 9.6 details information on how IT groups can test Landesk 9.6 SP1 prior.
Finally, IT groups should read over the list of the Important Changes with Landesk 9.6. There are some configuration changes and groups should review them so they are prepared. Any concerns or objections to the configuration changes can be directed to support-systems@tufts.edu.
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For the upgrade process itself, Support Systems will create a scheduled task to distribute the Landesk 9.6 PS1 agents to all computers that current have landesk Landesk agent installed.
Any IT groups with equipment or other computers that should not have software automatically patched should contact support-systems@tufts.edu to identify the best solution for those machines.
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